The Last Days – Aidan Doyle

“With the closure of Ellington, coal mining in the North East is finished. The scars in the landscape, through which any community recognises its history, are rapidly disappearing, but for mining they only ever indicated a world of work carried out in unseen places.”  Aidan Doyle

In the early 1990s Aidan Doyle visited the remaining collieries that ran along the Durham and Northumberland coast, documenting the last days of this lost territory.

The Last Days was shown at Side Gallery in 2005.

All images © Aidan Doyle.